種蒔く人ー左 #3

1964 Born in Osaka, Japan 1987 B.A. Fine Art, Osaka University of Arts Currently lives in Shiga, Japan Born in Osaka in 1964, Yoshinobu Nakagawa now resides in Shiga prefecture. Since his first solo exhibition in 1987, the year he graduated from Osaka University of Arts, he has consistently explored the relationship between plants, agriculture, and human beings. For Nakagawa, painting resembles farming: applying pigment to a surface is like sowing seeds into the earth. His practice develops through four key concepts: “who sows,” “who stores,” “where to sow,” and “things sown, things stored.” These ideas appear through motifs such as farming tools, seed jars, field-like linear compositions, and delicate drawings of seed forms made with wax soot. Although trained as a painter, Nakagawa has mainly created three-dimensional works. Moving between two-dimensional and three-dimensional expression, he continues to question the essential qualities of both painting and sculpture. Solo exhibitions: 2026　Views of seeds, eyes of farmers, CADAN Otemachi, Tokyo 　　　La Pensée sauvage (with Genshoin Doukaku), 2kw gallery, Shiga 2025　Views of seeds, eyes of farmers - recent works,Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo 　　　Yoshinobu Nakagawa, Kusakabe Soy Sauce Brewery Gallery, Kagawa 2024　Views of seeds, eyes of farmers - germination on the table,Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo 2023　views of seeds, eyes of framers, Galerie Ashiya Schule, Hyogo 2020　Light Pot, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo Collections Ashiya City Museum of Arts and History, Ashiya, Hyogo Fuji Xerox Co.,Ltd., Tokyo Imadate Art Center, Imadate, Fukui Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture, Kyoto Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Wakayama National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka Osaka University of Arts, Osaka Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., Tokyo Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo YAMASA Insutitute of Language and Culture, Okazaki, Aichi